The good guys in Japan are driving the rest of us mad with their bold ambitious plans about their country’s digital future. The current situation in the country is fairly simple. 1Gbps connections are already offered enabling users to download a... (Continue reading)
It seems that the French plans for the infamous law to enforce telcos to disconnect users from the Internet when they are caught distributing/downloading copyrighted material after having been warned twice about, did some good for the telecom reform in... (Continue reading)
Estonia becomes the next East European country to outline a National Broadband project for the development of high-speed broadband infrastructure through-out the country. According to Associated Press , the Estonian government and telecommunications providers in the country announced a $500... (Continue reading)
According to EC’s recommendation, member states have to encourage infrastructure-based competition as the best and fastest way for broadband development [1]. At first, the arguments behind infrastructure-based competition policies seem solid. Competition does good to the market: provides efficiency incentives... (Continue reading)
A few days ago I came across the work of Alexandre de Streel on EU telecommunications regulation, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Telecommunications Policy. In light of the contemporary review of EU regulatory framework, the author... (Continue reading)
Joeri inform us on his blog in FTTH Council Europe web site about the Council’s comments on the recent public consultation on Next Generation Access networks issued by the Commission in October. FTTH Council has made public the document which... (Continue reading)
ARCEP has recently released the outcome of the public consultation on FTTH last mile deployment guidelines. In a statement Friday, Arcep said it recommends the first operator “to equip a building offers to install additional fiber” in the last part... (Continue reading)
When Singapore announced its national broadband strategy the world followed impatiently. Singapore Government required a structural separated passive infrastructure operator/developer (NetCo) and an operational separated operating company (OpCo) for its national broadband network infrastructure. Last week, Singapore hit another home-rum... (Continue reading)
FTTx is a relatively new development in the telecom industry, with relatively small technology & architecture dependences and no historic record. Therefore, many issues relating to FTTx deployments, namely implementation, business models, economic case, technology etc are still open and... (Continue reading)
While on the other side of the Atlantic voices are calling for governmental support to uplift broadband figures, Finland is yet another European country to publicly consider the government funding of NGNs. The cost of the investment would be EUR... (Continue reading)